The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

I think I'm more demanding than any wife.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.